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A hard Brexit, whether it be with or without a deal between the EU and the UK, is now looking almost inevitable as the turmoil in Westminster rumbles on.

Mr Barry also took a swipe at his left-leaning colleagues in the trade union movement and their sluggish response to Brexit.

Mr Barry said: “The last night there was a Cabinet meeting where the Cabinet was told that there was a threat of the loss of 10,000 jobs to be lost in the tourism and hospitality industries within three months of a no-deal Brexit.

“We think this should act as an alarm call to the trade union movement in this country.

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“And that the trade union movement needs to send out a very clear and very strong message, and that message being that working class people will not be made the whipping boys for a no-deal Brexit.

“That there will be a fight to defend every single job.

“To stop every single attempt at a wage cut and other measures which would make ordinary people pay.

“In that regard, there’s a budget coming up on October 8th.

“There seems to be an increasing level of cooperation between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, tic-taccing, in relation to this budget and increasing talk of ordinary people being asked to make sacrifices in the context of the new situation.

“We want to make it very clear that we are totally opposed to ordinary people, to working class people, being asked to carry the can.”

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Mr Boyd Barrett said the Government needs to build more public housing.

He said: “Eoghan Murphy and this government need to finally admit that the housing crisis is getting worse and break from the failed policy of relying on corporate landlords and vulture funds who are simply exploiting the housing crisis for profit.

“What we propose to solve the crisis is a massive public and affordable house building programme, real rent caps where rents are brought back to affordable levels, and, crucially, they need to pass our Anti-Evictions Bill which would ban the eviction of people into homelessness.”